The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-08
one HUNDRED YEARS AGO
THE REV. DRs. WHITE AND PRO
VOOyr>WERE MADE BISHOPS
For the Infant Episcopal Church OF
America In Lambeth Palace
Chapel-CelebratiOn.

New York, February 1.-THE Herald
contains the following report OF the
celebration Of the centenary OF the
conservation OF Bishops White and
Provost at Lambeth Palace chapel, on
Saturday:
ONE HUNDRED YRAR3 AGO,
Westminster Hall, teeming with his
torical associations, remains today
much the same as il was when, a cen
tuIy sg). il was frequented by Pit
and Fox, Burke and EBkine. A little
further up the Thames, and on the op.
posite bank, there stands, equally in
tact, the modest and venerable chapel
OF Lambeth Palace, in which the Rev.
Samuel Pfovoost, rector Of Trinity
Church, New York, and the Rev.
William White, rector Of Christ
Church, Philadelphs, were on Febru-
airy 4th, 1887, consecrated as bishops
OF the American Church. 1t was that
same Provost who, as bishop, received
George Washington after his inaugu-
ration as President in the ancient
church that faces the Herald building
in New York, and it was he that con.
Quoted the solemn services OF prayer
aud Thanksgiving, The centennia OF
that conservation in London was cele-
brated ys;trlay In the chapel Of
Lambeth Palace.
BISHOP HENRY G. Potter,
while participating In the celebration,
stood where Provost had once stood.
This was DR.. Potter's first public ap.
pearahce as Bishop since his full &C.
cession TO that rank. Bishop Lyman,
OF North Carolina, also taking part in
the service, stood where Bishop White
had knelt when he was consecrated.
The seven large colored glass windows
upon which these Bishops OF the last
century Lad looked now admitted
dim religious light upon the transat-
lantic Bishops OF today. The Arch
bishop OF Canterbury, the primste
OF all England, who takes his
precedence immediately after the
royal family aOd before oil the dukes
and lords Of the land, was present, and
was stationed 1t the side Of the Amer.
lean Bishops, under the slms ceiling,
painted with saints and angels, which
had shade we'd the ceremony.in 1887.
The primate and the attendant
clergy entered the cha pei from behind
an osken ecreen Of great sge and fine
workmanship. The chapel, holding
only about seventy people, was in 1887
full large for the audience then ss-
Bembled. But only Westminster
Abbey could Yesterday have held
the numbers who had applied for
tickets. There were present the Rev.
O. g. Will 'mson, formerly Of San
Francisco, ard now the rector OF st.
Paul's, Porilsnd street, near the Lang
ham Hotel. In the body OF the chapel
America was represented, among
others, by the United States Minister
and Mrs. Phelps, Secretary end Mrs.
White, Mrs. Archibald Forbes, daugh-
ter OF Gen. Meles; the Misses Smalley,
Of Boston, and Mr.. Moreton Frewin.
THE SERVICES
began. with hymn, which was sung
by the choir from the quaint little
gallery at the end OF the chapel. The
communion services followed, Arch
bishop Bepson officiating in a low,
sweet but distinct voice, "a excellent
thing for an Archbishop to possess
as for woman. Nearly all partioi-
pated. A number of the clergy took
part in the reading OF the service.
Many OF them, and some OF the con-
gregatiop, used copies OF the same edi-
ton of the prayer book, fslicitously
dated 1873, which was used on the
occasion In 1857. But Victoria, as
Queen, took the place OF George III. as
King in the recital OF the appropriate
prayer, TO which the Archbishop
added the name OF the President Of
the United States. Bishop Lyman, OF
North Carolina, read the episle and
the Bishop OF London the gospel
Then Bishop Potter, in full can onicals,
read with tce clear and impressive
enuBciation so well known in Grace
Church, an address, to which the
Bishops Of Durham, st. Adams and
Rochester, who sat near him, listened
with deep attention. Tho address
lasted for about half an hour. Said
Bishop Potter;
BISHOP PoTTRR's ADDRESS.
"ChildTen grow to mans estate, and
pass from uhder their fathers roof
only to turn back egain to the parent
al knee, leo often bringing with them
their lite interests and memories, as
though they were of substantial weight
and consequence. Happy would be
the world il all fathers thus intruded
upon as he who today eits on the
throne Of Canterbury, and who, by
his invariable courtesy and kindness
to his large family beyo the sea, has
already made his name q household
word In many an American home.
One can imagine the surprise with
which our kinsman, who count their
ecclesiastical history by nearly score
OF centuries, look on at the new peo-
pie who make 30 much OF the COM
pletion Of their first hundred years.
But we, who are children OF the
Church Of England, may at least
plead that for US that
hundred years stands for a
new creation. AT the close OF the
Revolutionary war the church in
America was not merely enieeb' %, II
was almost extinct, In hostile atmos-
pheIe Of divided counssls. Its minis
ters we're largely withdrawn from IL to
the mother country. There seemed
nothing for II but to die. That 1t did
not, that Ii grew and has made a place
in the affections of multitudes not OF
its fold, ia not less rue than il anyone
100 years ago had 30 predicted OF It he
could have bsen generally laughed to
Ecorn. That It's growth should have
been so rapid, aud i.s history 80 peace
full, Is largely due to one OF the two
men who, 100 years ago, were conse-
Grated at yonder altar"
A HISTORICAL eKRroH.
Bishop Potter then told who Bishops
Provost and White were, and what
obstacles were met with at the begin
ring by the American Episcopacy.
This portion OF the address will doubt.
less become a valuable add ion Ia
American church history. In the
course OF his remark he made inter.
estiDg mention and comment upon the